Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 36 / Issue 08 / August 2015, pp 978 980 DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.99, Published online: 27 April 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0899823X15000999 How to cite this article: Michael B. Edmond, Nadia Masroor, Michael P. Stevens, Janis Ober and Gonzalo Bearman (2015). The Impact of Discontinuing Contact Precautions fo...

Hospital cleaning is a neglected component of infection control. In the UK, financial constraints have forced managers to re-evaluate domestic services and general cleaning has been reduced to the bare minimum. Services have been contracted out in some hospitals, which has further lowered standards of hygiene. Control of infection personnel believe that cleaning is important in preventing hospi...

The use and potential commercial application of biosurfactants in the medical field has increased during the past decade. Their antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities make them relevant molecules for applications in combating many diseases and as therapeutic agents. In addition, their role as anti-adhesive agents against several pathogens indicates their utility as suitable anti-adh...

The proportion of nosocomial infections potentially preventable under routine working conditions remains unclear. We performed a systematic review to describe multi-modal intervention studies, as well as studies assessing exogenous cross-infection published during the last decade, in order to give a crude estimate of the proportion of potentially preventable nosocomial infections. The evaluatio...

BACKGROUND Screening at hospital admission for carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been proposed as a strategy to reduce nosocomial infections. The objective of this study was to determine the long-term costs and health benefits of selective and universal screening for MRSA at hospital admission, using both PCR-based and chromogenic media-based tests in various se...

Wound site infections are a major source of postoperative illness, accounting for approximately a quarter of all nosocomial infections. National studies have defined the patients at highest risk for infection in general and in many specific operative procedures. Advances in risk assessment comparison may involve use of the standardized infection ratio, procedure-specific risk factor collection,...